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Culture Spotlight September 2019
In Culture Spotlight we present a special project that is supported by our Cultural Funding. The financial means for student culture are granted upon application. Our Culture Spotlight in September is about the student group DER SPINNRAT. They'll take you on a 60-minute-trip to earnestness and the absurd, catch-22 and scurrility. The actors kaleidoscopicly mimic everyday…
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Photo Exhibition “VIEL F. ALT GESICHTER DES LEBENS”
The latest photo exhibition at Studentenwerk shows life’s diversity. From girls in India's Chennai to the crowded Brooklyn Bridge in New York City to a snapshot in Leipzig's Täubchenweg—the current photo exhibition at Studentenwerk Leipzig features student Sarah Kretschmar. She shows her travel experiences as well as small moments of everyday life and wants to reflect the…
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11 September: Veggie-Day at Student Restaurant Mensa am Park
On Veggie-Day we offer tasty, vegetarian and vegan dishes in our student restaurant Mensa am Park. On 11 September the next Veggie-Day takes place at student restaurant Mensa am Park. On this day, we offer e.g. a brokkoli-tortellini-gratin, pumpkin seed and vegetable röstis and a vegan smoked tofu guolash with cowberries. All meals are listed on our menu…
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4 September is Veggie-Day at Mensa Peterssteinweg
On Veggie-Day we offer vegan and vegetarian meals exclusively at Mensa Peterssteinweg. Our next Veggie-Day is on 4 September in student restaurant Mensa Peterssteinweg. On that day we offer only vegan and vegetarian dishes. On the menu is e.g. a coconut curry with yellow lentils, potatoes and homemade herb quark and mozarella fingers on a colorful salad.…
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Refursbishment Planned for Student Halls of Residence Straße des 18. Oktober
The Free State of Saxony and the Saxon Studentenwerk organisations signed an agreement. They agreed upon the distribution of subsidies that allow Studentenwerk organisations to plan their refurbishments in a financially more secure way. On 29 August, the Saxon Minister for Science and Arts, Dr. Eva-Maria Stange, and the directors of the four Saxon Studentenwerk…
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Changed Student Housing Office Hours in Autumn 2019
In September and October, the housing department has partly changed office hours. The following changed office hours apply for the persons in charge at our student housing department from 03.09.2019 to 11.10.2019: Tuesday 9.00 – 11.00 a.m and 1.00 – 5.00 p.m Thursday 9.00 – 11.00 a.m. and 1.00 – 3.00 p.m Friday 9.00 – 11.00…
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Culture Spotlight August 2019
In Culture Spotlight we present a special project that is supported by our Cultural Funding. The financial means for student culture are granted upon application. Is time travel to the past possible? The play "Ghosts in Princeton" by Daniel Kehlmann is about the ingenious logician Kurt Gödel, who was torn between mathematics and madness. He…
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Illustrated Dictionaries: Mensa version now available
What do you call things in our students restaurants? An illustrated dictionary was published in German, English and Chinese. Deutsches Studentenwerk (DSW), the Studentewerk umbrella organisation, has published illustrated dictionaries in different languages. The previously published dictionaries covered everything about student halls of residence. These dictionaries are meant to help students find their way around in…
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BAföG Service Changes
BAföG service is restricted on Thursdays As of now, BAföG service in SSZ is restricted on Thursdays. This means there is no advisory/consultancy on that day. You can, however, Submit applications and missing documents Receive forms Receive contact details and information on office hours of your BAföG counsellor On Mondays and Fridays the BAföG service is available as usual as…
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Buddies for international students wanted!
Studentenwerk Leipzig’s tutors are looking for new Buddy Program team members You know Leipzig inside and out? You would like to get to know people from all over the world? And you have mastered your study start already? Then you should appply for the Buddy Program in order to help international freshers arrive and feel…
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